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Click here to see last winter's William and Mary Alumni Magazine.
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Let's face it! Some things are just easier to do than to talk about. Though some people shy away from the mere mention of sex and healthy relationships, I earned international recognition by talking about human sexuality and other health issues with general and medical audiences from Oxford, Mississippi, to Oxford, England. Through my Greek-Letter Organization keynotes, medical lectures, and college visits, I addressed more than 100,000 doctors, nurse midwives, psychologists, medical and undergraduate students, fraternity and sorority members, resident assistants, peer educators, student leaders, and athletes. I taught university courses in human sexuality and general health; advised Safe Space groups and Gay/Straight alliances; and trained staff at STI clinics, at the CDC, as well as overseas at institutions such as the University of Leeds, the University of London, and Nuffield Medical School at Oxford University. During my time in the UK, I had the opportunity to work with members of Parliament and the Royal Family.
With a great-grandmother who was a midwife and whose daughters (including my Ma'Maw) were able to provide the perfect anecdote at the perfect time, I combine clinical science with my teacher training and valuable field experiences, to become the primary choice of many non-profit organizations and undergraduate programming offices alike. I earned my Masters of Arts in Education from the College of William and Mary where I distinguished myself as a peer educator and the College's first male fitness instructor. My first teaching position at T. C. Williams High School (as in Remember the Titans) let me work with the real Coach Herman Boone and also found the first Gay/Straight alliance in a Virginia public school. I was also the first American to receive the Master of Science in sex research from the world's oldest school of public health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the University of London, where my cohort elected me as their student president. I pioneered a weekly sexual advice column in Manhattan, answered sex and relationship questions on a Baltimore morning radio program, and wrote national journal articles on tobacco cessation (a concern grounded in tobacco's deleterious effects on the sexual anatomy). In my summer family planning internship under mentor and contraceptive technology guru, Dr. Robert Hatcher, MPH, I wrote a chapter on effective spermicide use for a pocket reference now in the hands of almost every Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Family Planning student in the United States. One of three Americans invited to partake in the United Kingdom's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) study that identified and to reduced gay-, bi-, and transphobia-motivated bullying in academia, I am often asked to lecture on violence reduction for all groups, including same-sex and other-sex violence. Currently, I head the health education program at a university here in New York and run a successful private sex counseling practice in Manhattan that extends to the world via the Internet.
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